A5059134639- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Marine animal studies overview
- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Reliability and Maintenance Optimization
- Plant and animal studies
- Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
- Power Systems and Technologies
Boise State University
2015-2022
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
2016-2022
Purdue University West Lafayette
2013-2018
Lawrence University
2008
Resumen La naturaleza carismatica y la enigmatica disminucion poblacional de Falco sparverius ha provocado el interes preocupacion tanto cientificos (ciudadanos profesionales) como del publico en general. Aunque se han propuesto diversas razones causas esta disminucion, hay poca o nula evidencia empirica para mayoria las amenazas hipotetizadas consecuentemente no existen recomendaciones gestion apoyadas empirica. Presentamos investigaciones futuras sobre causa F. sparverius. Ademas,...
Despite common use, the efficacy of artificial breeding sites (e.g., nest boxes, bat houses, burrows) as tools for monitoring and managing animals depends on demography target populations availability natural sites. Yet, conditions enabling to be useful or informative have yet articulated. We use a stochastic simulation model determine situations where are either disadvantageous animals. Artificial convenient tool therefore occupancy is often used an index population levels. However,...
Complex decisions dramatically affect animal dispersal and space use. Dispersing individuals respond to a combination of fine-scale environmental stimuli internal attributes. Individual-based modeling offers valuable approach for the investigation such interactions because it combines heterogeneity behaviors with spatial detail. Most individual-based models (IBMs), however, vastly oversimplify behavior behavioral minimalism diminishes value these models. We present program SEARCH (Spatially...
Studies of cliff-nesting raptors can be challenging because direct observations nest contents are difficult. Our goals were to develop a protocol for installing motion-activated trail cameras at Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) nests record diet information and productivity, estimate prey detection probability using different study methods. In 2014 2015, we installed 12 with 18–42-d-old nestlings. Following installation, monitored adult behavior observation post-installation image review. At...
There is widespread evidence that human disturbance affects wildlife behavior, but long-term population effects can be difficult to quantify. Individual-based models (IBMs) offer a way assess population-level, aggregate of on wildlife. We created Tolerance in Raptors and the Associated Impacts Leisure Sports (TRAILS), an IBM simulates interactions between recreationists nesting raptors, effect raptor populations test if changes tolerance could mitigate negative consequences. used behavioral...
Understanding human use of landscapes is important for managing recreational lands. Predicting behavior difficult, however, and methods assessing habitat could benefit from advances in other fields. Habitat selection wildlife ecology provide useful tools studying such topics. We present a case study the adoption to land use. locations shooters Idaho environmental features along with species distribution model (that uses presence-only modeling framework) identify associated shooting...
Parks and other protected areas in tropical forests often include secondary forest, cropland, pasture. Documentation of the impact such anthropogenic disturbance is essential for effective management. We re-sampled bats within Mount Isarog Natural Park (MINP), a area southeastern Luzon, Philippines, seventeen years after survey old- second-growth forest agro-pastoral was conducted 1988. By employing harp traps tunnel trap, addition to mist nets as used earlier study, we aimed document...
Habitat availability might be the most important determinant of success for a species reintroduction programme, making investigation quality and quantity habitat needed to produce self‐sustaining populations research priority ecologists. We used stochastic model population dynamics predict whether attempts improve existing breeding territories using artificial nest platforms improved growth rate persistence reintroduced Northern Aplomado Falcons Falco femoralis septentrionalis in South...
Abstract Illegal killing of nongame wildlife is a global yet poorly documented problem. The prevalence and ecological consequences illegal are often underestimated or completely unknown. We review the practice legal recreational shooting present data gathered from telemetry, surveys, observations on its association with (birds snakes) within conservation areas in Idaho, USA. In total, 33% telemetered long‐billed curlews ( Numenius americanus ) 59% other bird carcasses found known cause death...
ABSTRACT Threats to North American bat species necessitate the quantification of habitat. To characterize habitat, we recorded echolocation calls from state forests in Indiana, USA. We identified using automated classification software and constructed detection histories for 3 conservation concern: Indiana ( Myotis sodalis ), little brown lucifugus northern long‐eared septentrionalis ). analyzed these data single‐ multi‐species occupancy approaches estimate occurrence probabilities at genus...
Bat conservation in the eastern United States following onset of white‐nose syndrome necessitates and production important summer habitat required by bats for both diurnal roosting nocturnal foraging commuting. Forest management via silvicultural applications can purposely direct forest succession so features are retained developed. The effects timber harvest on at large spatiotemporal scales a species not always readily apparent but be investigated with spatially explicit dynamic modeling....
Nolte, E. G., J. Bart, B. P. Pauli, G. S. Kaltenecker, and A. Heath. 2016. Detectability of migrating raptors its effect on bias precision trend estimates. Avian Conservation Ecology 11(2):9.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ACE-00894-110209
Abstract Mobile acoustic surveys are a common method of surveying bat communities. However, there is paucity empirical studies exploring different methods for conducting mobile road bats. During 2013, we conducted on three routes in north‐central Indiana, U.S.A., using (1) standard survey, (2) survey where the vehicle stopped 1 min at every half mile route (called “start‐stop method”), and (3) with an individual bicycle. Linear mixed models multiple comparison procedures revealed that when...
Sound forest management requires accurate maps at an appropriate scale. Forest cover data developed a national scale may be too coarse for local level. We demonstrated two-stage unsupervised classification, integrating Continuous Inventory (CFI) and Landsat imageries, to classify types Indiana State Forests (ISF) 8-km surrounding areas. In the first stage, automatic classification assisted by CFI was applied in ISF. second resultant information from stage used expand area into Splitting...
Research on the ecology of bats and roads has largely covered impacts major highways, but varying types surrounding habitats may differ in their bat activity. We conducted 28 mobile acoustic surveys around Indiana state forests from May to August 2012. employed Manly's selection ratios examine levels activity along different through various habitats, interaction road habitat, using an exact chi-squared test. Activity was higher than expected unpaved local that were lined with open-canopy...
Recreation on public lands is growing and increasingly recognized as an ecosystem service providing improved health, connection to nature, social time while also disturbing degrading ecosystems. Human impacts must be managed, but often managers have little information about the factors that affect recreation patterns. We combined data from global positioning system receivers record off-road vehicle (ORV) travel with a pretrip survey determine how group characteristics, site experience,...
Traffic noise is one of the leading causes reductions in animal abundances near roads. Acoustic masking conspecific signals and adventitious cues mechanism that likely animals to abandon loud areas. However, effects can be difficult document situ infrequent events may impractical study. Here, we present Soundscapes model, a stochastic individual-based model dynamically models listening areas searching for acoustic resources ("searchers"). The also studies human detections searchers. set...
We examined long-term demography of an endangered subspecies, the Northern Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis septentrionalis), in South Texas, USA. The population has been managed and monitored since reintroductions began 1993. Data spanning 1993–2018 enabled us to build integrated model (IPM) a Cormack-Jolly-Seber estimate survival for three life stages (first-year, non-breeders, breeders) both sexes, abundance males, fecundity, immigration, emigration. Male falcons survived at lower rates...
Red-bellied Woodpeckers (Melanerpes carolinus) are insectivores that consume mainly insects found within trees but may also feed on seeds and small vertebrates. On rare, isolated occasions, opportunistically scavenge carcasses or carrion. Here we document the first recorded instances of repeated sustained visits by to a deer carcass presumably for supplementation diet via scavenging. Between December 2016 March 2017, tree-mounted, motion sensor trail camera directed toward carcass, site in...